Solution Packager and global optionset enum support in spkl Task Runner

I’ve published version 1.0.9 of spkl to NuGet - this adds the following new features:

  1. Global optionset enum generation for early bound classes.
  2. Solution Packager support

Global Optionset enum generation

This was a tricky one due to the CrmSvcUtil not making it easy to prevent multiple enums being output where a global optionset is used, but you can now add the following to your spkl.json early bound section to generate global optionset enums.

{
  "earlyboundtypes": [
    {
      ...
      "generateOptionsetEnums": true,
      ...
    }
  ]
}

In a future update, I’ll add the ability to filter out the enums to only those used.

Solution Packager Support

The solution packager allows you to manage your Dynamics metadata inside a Visual Studio project by extracting the solution into separate xml files. When you need to combine multiple updates from code comments, you can then use the packager to re-combine and import into Dynamics. To configure the solution packager task you can add the following to your spkl.json

 /*
  The solutions section defines a solution that can be extracted to individual xml files to make
  versioning of Dynamics metadata (entities, attributes etc) easier
  */
  "solutions": [
    {
      "profile": "default,debug",
      /*
      The unique name of the solution to extract, unpack, pack and import
      */
      "solution_uniquename": "spkltestsolution",
      /*
      The relative folder path to store the extracted solution metadata xml files
      */
      "packagepath": "package",
      /*
      Set to 'true' to increment the minor version number before importing from the xml files
      */
      "increment_on_import": false
    }
  ]

There are two .bat files provided that will call:

spkl unpack

This will extract the solution specifed in the spkl.json into the packagepath as multiple xml files

spkl import

This will re-pack the xml files and import into Dynamics - optionally increasing the version number of the solution to account for the new build.

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